Re: Mounting a Philips key ring camera/usb stick
From: Dances With Crows (danSPANceswitTRAPhcrows_at_usa.net)
Date: 07/15/04
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Date: 15 Jul 2004 14:48:18 GMT
On 15 Jul 2004 07:28:31 -0700, Chaytriff staggered into the Black Sun
and said:
> Maurice Janssen <this@is.invalid> wrote in message
> news:<cd5bbi$upo$1@linux.z74.net>...
>> >But when I try to mount /dev/sda, which is registered as filesystem
>> Try to mount /dev/sda1 (note the trailing '1'). sda is just the
>> disk, sda1 is the first partition on it.
> Goddamn! Yep, that works. Damn, then why does /dev/sda work on my usb
> floppy and on a regular usb memory stick?
Floppy disks aren't partitioned. Most USB Mass Storage devices that
resemble hard disks *are* partitioned. You can quickly figure out if a
disk is partitioned or not by running "fdisk -l" on the whole device; if
you get no partition information, it isn't partitioned.
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